Radio Mashaal is a public-service broadcaster providing a powerful alternative to extremist propaganda in Pakistan's remote tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan.
Former Pakistani chief justice Nasir-ul-Mulk has been chosen to act as the interim prime minister until parliamentary elections are held in two months.
Hundreds of people have attended the funeral in Karachi of a Pakistani exchange student killed in last week's school shooting in Texas.
At least one soldier was killed and several others were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a paramilitary forces vehicle in Nowshera, a city in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Pakistan’s interior minister is recovering at a hospital in Lahore from a gunshot wound sustained in an attempted assassination authorities believe was linked to a blasphemy controversy.
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has been wounded in a gun attack in the central province of Punjab where he was attending a meeting, officials said.
A Pakistani court has disqualified Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif from parliament for holding a work permit for the United Arab Emirates.
Three suicide bombers attacked Pakistani police and paramilitary troopers in the country's southwest, killing at least five security force members and wounding seven others.
Chahat fled from parents who threatened to hand her over to the Taliban, but found refuge with transgender friends in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan. Despite discrimination and the threat of violence, she and her flatmates are witnessing small steps towards a more accepting society.
Thousands of people have rallied in the Pakistani eastern city of Lahore to call for an end to what they say are human rights violations by authorities in the country's tribal regions.
Afghanistan has returned the dead bodies of five Pakistani soldiers to Pakistan following clashes near the two countries' disputed border, Afghan officials say.
Tens of thousands of ethnic Pashtuns -- led by young the young activist Manzoor Pashteen -- gathered in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on April 8 for a mass demonstration to demand the protection of the rights of Pashtuns.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is scheduled to travel to Afghanistan on April 6 on a landmark visit that could help ease tensions between the two neighbors.
The United States has placed Pakistan's Milli Muslim League political party on its list of foreign terrorist organizations for its alleged links to a militant group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The spokesman for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry says Islamabad and Washington have yet to find "common ground" on a range of issues, including U.S. accusations that Pakistan is not pulling its weight in the fight against terrorism.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on March 31 visited her hometown in Pakistan for the first time since she was shot by Taliban militants in 2012.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai expressed joy and shed tears as she paid a short “dream” visit to her hometown in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat Valley for the first time since she was shot by Taliban militants in 2012.
Protesters marched in the northwestern Pakistani city of Bannu on March 26 to demand the release of fellow activists detained over the past week.
A Pakistani court has acquitted 20 people of charges that they were part of a lynch mob who burned alive a Christian couple that had been falsely accused of blasphemy in 2014.
The Pakistani Taliban has confirmed the death of the son of leader Mullah Fazlullah in a suspected U.S. drone strike on March 6.
A son of Pakistani Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah and 19 other people were killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike this week in Afghanistan, officials say.
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